2011 ■ JEWS & ARABS IN SAMARIA
Itamar Murders
Palestinians stab Jewish couple, 3 kids – including baby – to death
Fogel family stabbed
to death in Itamar
mfa.gov.il, 11 Mar 2011
From top:
father Udi Fogel, mother
Ruth, son Yoav, daugh-
ter Elad and baby Ha-
das.
At least one terrorist infiltrated the West
Bank settlement of Itamar, southeast of
Nablus, late Friday night (11 March)
and stabbed to death Udi (36) and
Ruth (35) Fogel, and their children
Yoav (11), Elad (4), and 3-month-old
Hadas.
The killings occurred shortly after 10
p.m., when one or two attackers jumped
the fence that surrounds Itamar and
broke into the home of Ruth and Udi
Fogel. The attackers went from room to
room, first stabbing the parents and their
3-month-old baby girl, Hadas. They
proceeded to the next room where they
killed the two sleeping boys, Elad, 4,
and Yoav, 11.
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Two other boys – Ro'ie, 8 and Yishai, 2
– were sleeping in another room and
were not attacked.
The family's oldest child, 12-year-old
Tamar, was out of the house at the time
and alerted neighbors when no one ope-
ned the door for her.
The IDF continues to search for the ter-
rorists who carried out the murder of the
Fogel family. ■
Two Palestinians stab
to death five members
of Israeli family at
Itamar, West Bank
DEBKAfile Special Report March
12, 2011
At least two Palestinians armed with
knives stabbed the mother, father and
three of the children, aged, 11, three and
a baby of a month in their sleep at
Itamar, south of Nablus early Saturday.
Two small children were not attacked.
Their sister aged 12 found them when
she returned home at 12:30 and called
for help. Magen David Adom paramed-
ics could only confirm the five deaths.
The terrorists had broken through the
electronic fence guarding the settlement
without setting off an alarm.
Military and police units fanned out to
hunt the perpetrators and set up check-
points. Hamas websites hailed the mur-
der as a «heroic operation,» without tak-
ing responsibility.
This attack is the first of its kind in
years. Hamas Websites hailed the mur-
der as «heroic,» without taking respon-
sibility.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources re-
port: There were no terror alerts prior to
the attack although Hamas networks had
been known to be regrouping in Judea
and Samaria for the purpose of attacking
and kidnapping Israelis on both sides of
the Green Line. Several Palestinians
were recently detained at the few re-
maining West Bank checkposts carrying
pipe bombs, knives and fire bombs.
Nonetheless the military did not rec-
ommend putting any of the checkposts
back even though the Palestinian Au-
thority's security services had slowed
down their counter-terror cooperation
with Israel, therefore failing to keep
their side of the bargain for the removal
of the checkposts.
For more than a year, Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Min-
ister Ehud Barak acceded to relentless
US and European pressure to grant West
Bank Palestinians almost unrestricted
freedom of movement and generous aid
for their economic development as a
means of persuading PA chairman Mah-
moud Abbas to return to the negotiating
table. This policy failed in its purpose
while leaving Israelis vulnerable once
again to terrorist attacks.
Israel's government military policy
makers have refrained from redeploying
the Israeli military to compensate for
declining the Palestinian Authority's
counter terror activity, which has been a
concomitant of the rising unrest in the
Arab world, especially in Egypt. Israeli
queries on this to the Americans and
British officers running the Palestinian
security services have gone unanswered.
Because Palestinian traffic between
Nablus in the north and Hebron in the
south is to all intents and purposes un-
monitored, the Israeli military is forced
to fall back on intelligence informants
as its only tool for preventing terrorist
attacks. The result was seen tragically in
Itamar Saturday morning. ■
Horror in Samaria:
Terrorist murders
family of 5
by Yair Altman, 12 March 2011,
Ynetnews
Horror in Samaria: A terrorist infiltrated
the West Bank settlement of Itamar,
southeast of Nablus, early Saturday and
stabbed five family members to death.
The shocking attack occurred around 1
am as the terrorist entered the family
home and murdered three children aged
11, 3, and a baby girl along with their
parents. The victims were apparently
sleeping as the killer came in.
Itamar residents reported that shots were
heard in the area; the terrorist managed
to flee the scene.
Three other children at the home, a 12-
year-old girl and her two brothers, aged
6 and 2, were able to escape to a nearby
house and inform their neighbors of the
attack.
Ambulance in Itamar (Photo: Ido Erez)
The terrorist who carried out the massa-
cre cut the fence surrounding Itamar and
entered the home of the victims through
the window, an initial probe of the mur-
der showed. Authorities could not im-
mediately discount the possibility that
more than one attacker was involved in
the murder.
'Toys next to pools of blood'
Following an initial report of the inci-
dent, large IDF and police forces rushed
to the site. The Air Force also joined the
effort to track down the terrorist, de-
ploying numerous aircraft in the area.
The night's sky was lit up with flares, as
special IDF and police forces were
called in to assist in the manhunt.
The IDF Spokesman's Office said
«troops are scouring the area in search
of the suspect. The IDF is performing
inspections at all crossing points set up
in the region.»
Magen David Adom ambulance service
teams pronounced the victims dead at
the scene. MDA spokesman Zaki Heller
said the ambulance service got a call
around 1 am and dispatched large teams
of paramedics to the area.
«When rescue forces entered the house
they encountered a very difficult sight…
There were five people there who were
hurt. We could do nothing but pro-
nounce them dead,» he said.
Paramedic Kabaha Muayua was among
the first responders at the site and de-
scribed the horrific scene he encoun-
tered.
«We could not help the first four stab
victims. Following an inspection of the
scene I spotted an infant of about three
who still had a pulse. We engaged in
lengthy resuscitation efforts but had to
pronounce him dead,» he said. «The
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murder scene was shocking. Kids' toys
right next to pools of blood.»
Paramedic Gil Moscowitz, who serves
as MDA's director of operations, said
teams dispatched to the home discov-
ered «parents and three children who
were brutally murdered.»
«The parents were lying next to each
other in their room…we found three
bodies in the master bedroom; the two
parents and a baby,» he said.
'Government must back settlers'
Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan,
who arrived at the site, appeared
shocked by the brutal attack.
«This is no doubt one of the most terri-
ble attacks in recent years,» he told the
reporters on hand.
«Words cannot describe the extent of
the horror and pain,» he said. «Those
tempted to think that the Palestinians
ceased their acts of murder see that they
do not shy away from any tactic and any
Jewish victims, regardless of how young
they are.»
«The time has come for the government
to regain its senses and start backing up
the settlement enterprise, which remains
vulnerable on the frontlines,» he said.
The settlement of Itamar, which is sur-
rounded by Palestinian villages, has
been the site of murderous attacks in the
past. In June of 2002, a terrorist entered
the community and opened fire, killing
Rachel Shabo and three of her seven
children, Neriya, Tzvika, and Avishai.
Yossi Twito, who commanded the local
security team at the settlement, was also
shot to death in the attack. ■
Five Israelis murdered
by Palestinians at
Itamar were Gaza
evacuees
DEBKAfile Special Report March
12, 2011
The five members of the Israeli family
murdered at Itamar on the West Bank,
Friday night, March 11, have been iden-
tified as Udi Vogel, 38, the father; his
wife Ruth Vogel, 35, their sons Yoav,
11 and Elad, 3 and their four-month old
daughter Hadas. The three children who
survived are Roi, 8, Yishai, 2 and their
sister Tamar, aged 12, who found the
victims when she arrived home later that
night.
The family moved to Itamar after Jew-
ish communities were forcibly evicted
from the Gaza Strip in 2007 as part of
the Sharon government's disengagement
plan.
The terrorists had broken through the
fence guarding the sleeping settlement
and entered the Vogel home through an
open window without raising an alarm.
Military and police units fanned out to
hunt the perpetrators and set up check-
points. Hamas websites hailed the mur-
der as a «heroic operation,» without tak-
ing responsibility.
This attack is the first of its kind in
years. Hamas Websites hailed the mur-
der as «heroic,» without taking respon-
sibility.
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources re-
port: There were no terror alerts prior to
the attack although Hamas networks had
been known to be regrouping in Judea
and Samaria for the purpose of attacking
and kidnapping Israelis on both sides of
the Green Line. Several Palestinians
were recently detained at the few re-
maining West Bank checkposts carrying
pipe bombs, knives and fire bombs.
Nonetheless the military did not rec-
ommend putting any of the checkposts
back even though the Palestinian Au-
thority's security services had slowed
down their counter-terror cooperation
with Israel, therefore failing to keep
their side of the bargain for the removal
of the checkposts.
IDF troops near Itamar (Photo: Ido Erez)
For more than a year, Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Min-
ister Ehud Barak acceded to relentless
US and European pressure to grant West
Bank Palestinians almost unrestricted
freedom of movement and generous aid
for their economic development as a
means of persuading PA chairman Mah-
moud Abbas to return to the negotiating
table. This policy failed in its purpose
while leaving Israelis vulnerable once
again to terrorist attacks.
Israel's government military policy
makers have refrained from redeploying
the Israeli military to compensate for
declining the Palestinian Authority's
counter terror activity, which has been a
concomitant of the rising unrest in the
Arab world, especially in Egypt. Israeli
queries on this to the Americans and
British officers running the Palestinian
security services have gone unanswered.
Because Palestinian traffic between
Nablus in the north and Hebron in the
south is to all intents and purposes un-
monitored, the Israeli military is forced
to fall back on intelligence informants
as its only tool for preventing terrorist
attacks. The result was seen tragically in
Itamar Saturday morning. ■
'Daughter yelled in
horror, something
terrible happened'
By JPOST 13mar11
Fogel family neighbor gives eyewitness
account to Army Radio after entering
family's home in Itamar, says «did not
think it was terrorist attack.»
Jacob Cohen, a neighbor of the Fogel
family in the Itamar settlement, was the
first person to come to the family's
home after the stabbing, he told Army
Radio Sunday morning.
Twelve-year-old Tamar Fogel, who is
friends with Cohen's daughter, spent the
evening with her neighbors at the time
of the murder.
«The couple's daughter left our home,
and when she tried to enter her house no
one answered her. She heard her brother
cry, so she came to call us,» Cohen re-
called.
«The girls woke me up, I grabbed a
weapon in case it was necessary, and
when we got to the house we saw traces
of mud everywhere, even on the couch
itself.»
Cohen and Tamar Fogel saw through
one of the house's windows that her
seven-year-old brother was sleeping and
woke him so he could open the door.
Cohen told Army Radio that after a dec-
ade without similar events taking place,
he did not think the attack was terrorist-
related.
«At first I was ashamed to enter the
family's home,» he said. «We did not
think it was a terrorist attack, but when
the daughter entered and screamed in
horror, I realized something terrible had
happened. I prepared my weapon, fired
two bullets into the air, I searched the
house and found the remaining children,
the seven-year-old boy who opened the
door, and the two-year-old who was in
the parents' room.»
Fearing that the terrorist was still in the
house, Cohen immediately took the
children out and called for help.
The settlement's security forces and then
the army came to the Fogel house at
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around 1:00 am. Cohen said it was not
clear why the terrorists chose the Fogel
home for the attack. «There is no reason
for terrorists to have chosen this house,
it is not closer to the [fence] than other
houses,» he told Army Radio.
«The incident is especially disturbing
because Rabbi Udi is an officer in the
army, and he probably could not defend
himself on time due to the surprise of
the attack.»
The surviving Fogel children were
moved to their grandparents' home.
According to Cohen, the younger son
said that the terrorists had skipped him
because he was hidden under the blan-
kets. ■
Attack probe: Security
guards failed
Alert dismissed as false alarm,
IDF informed only hours later.
Probe at advanced stage
YNET, 12mar11, Ron Ben-Yishai
IDF troops were dispatched to Itamar
only three hours after the terrorist infil-
tration into the West Bank community,
despite an alert by the electronic fence
surrounding the settlement.
In these critical hours, a terrorist or two
were able to gain entry into a home in
the community and stab five family
members to death, including three chil-
dren, the probe into the murder shows.
Following the shocking attack, IDF of-
ficials fear an escalation and clashes
across Judea and Samaria.
Ariel, Samaria.
The settlement of Itamar is equipped
with a comprehensive defense system
and saw no terror attacks since 2002.
The system includes various fences and
observation means that alert a central
operations room manned by two civilian
security officers at any given time.
In addition, the community is guarded
by six civilian security guards, in addi-
tion to IDF forces deployed just outside
Itamar.
Friday night, an alert from the electronic
fence was registered at the central op-
erations room, prompting a patroller to
head to the site. However, he did not
identify signs of infiltration and decided
he was dealing with a false alarm.
The security guard also failed to dis-
patch IDF troops who were stationed
less than one kilometer away. The
forces only rushed to the scene some
three hours after the terrorist or terror-
ists entered the community. An elec-
tronic alert was apparently also regis-
tered after the attackers left Itamar fol-
lowing the murder.
Probe at advanced state
The probe into the brutal murder in
Itamar is in a very advanced stage and
has concluded that two terrorists appar-
ently entered the community. The inves-
tigation is being managed by the Shin
Bet and IDF, without cooperating with
Palestinian Authority security officials.
The probe, which got underway at 7 am
Saturday, apparently bore fruit already.
Some 20 people had been detained in
connection with the attack.
Despite the close cooperation with the
PA as of late, military officials decided
not to join forces with the Palestinians
in holding the probe, both because of
the incident's sensitivity and based on
operational considerations.
Security officials are now concerned
about the prospect of escalation in Judea
and Samaria, prompting the IDF to rein-
force its presence in the region. Officials
estimate that such escalation may follow
«price tag» acts by radical settlers, as
well as Palestinian retaliation to such
actions.
Authorities also estimate that the attack
was carried out by a local cell not di-
rectly affiliated with Hamas or any other
organization, and that the murder was
motivated by growing friction with set-
tlers, growing incitement against the
settlements on the Palestinian street, and
a desire to avenge «price tag» acts. ■
Hamas ordered five
Israelis murdered
following secret
Islamist Khartoum
parley
They arrived too late. The killers
had flown
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
March 12, 2011
Palestinian Hamas websites quickly
hailed the murder of a mother, father
and three of their children, aged, 11,
three and a baby of a month, whose
throats were slashed in their sleep at
Itamar, south of Nablus Friday night,
March 11 as «a heroic operation.» The
escape of at least two Palestinian killers
long before the alarm was sounded after
midnight was eased by the dismantling
of most Israeli security checkpoints on
the West Bank and slow military vigi-
lance.
DEBKAfile's intelligence and counter-
terror sources disclose that the Itamar
attack was the first result of an Iran-
funded secret conference in Khartoum
last week of the heads of the national
branches of the Muslim Brotherhood
across the Arab world, at which a plan
was charted for Hamas to launch a
multi-casualty terrorist assaults against
Israel on both sides of the Green Line –
over and above missile attacks from the
Gaza Strip in order to ignite the third
Palestinian uprising (intifada). The
Egyptian Brotherhood is the parent or-
ganization of Hamas.
This decision was a facet of a compre-
hensive plan drawn up in Khartoum for
Brotherhood activists to fire up the up-
risings in the various Arab countries.
With Iranian backing and funding, the
different branches resolved to coordi-
nate operations for using the unrest to
take control of Arab capitals
Iranian intelligence officers attending
the conference used the occasion to set
up direct contacts with Brotherhood
leaders who came from Egypt, Iraq, Tu-
nisia, Syria, Jordan, Great Britain. The
Palestinian delegation representing
Hamas-Gaza was headed by Mahmoud
A-Zahar and Hamas-Damascus headed
by Khaled Meshaal.
The plan for Hamas to revive terrorist
on the West Bank and inside Israel was
an important part of the Iranian-backed
resolutions reached at the Khartoum
conference.
DEBKAfile notes that not a single Arab
government – not even Israel – pre-
vented the Brotherhood and Hamas
delegates from setting out for Khar-
toum. No word of the conference was
allowed to leak to the Israeli public and
Israeli security authorities appear not to
have adapted their practices to the deci-
sions reached by the Islamists there.
This could explain why there was no
prior terror alert for the Itamar killings
or apparent IDF redeployment for an
upsurge of multiple terrorist murders
even though Hamas networks had been
known to be regrouping in Judea and
Samaria for the purpose of attacking and
kidnapping Israelis on both sides of the
Green Line. Several Palestinians were
recently detained at the few remaining
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West Bank checkpoints carrying pipe
bombs, knives and fire bombs.
Despite appeals from West Bank Israeli
community leaders, the military did not
recommend putting any of the check-
points back – even though the Palestin-
ian Authority's security services had
slowed down their counter-terror coop-
eration and intelligence-sharing with
Israel, therefore failing to keep their side
of the bargain for the removal of the
checkpoints.
For more than a year, Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Min-
ister Ehud Barak acceded to relentless
US and European pressure to grant West
Bank Palestinians almost unrestricted
freedom of movement and generous aid
for their economic development as a
means of persuading PA chairman Mah-
moud Abbas to return to the negotiating
table. This policy failed in its purpose
while leaving Israelis vulnerable once
again to terrorist attacks. None of these
alarming developments were brought to
public notice in Israel. Jerusalem is still
trying to pretend that Egypt remains
faithful to its 1979 peace treaty, whereas
nothing of those relations appears to
have survived the fall of Hosni Muba-
rak. ■
Abbas' double game:
He tips Fatah to
quietly endorse Itamar
murders
Mahmoud Abbas wants to ride
Arab uprisings bandwagon
DEBKAfile March 12, 2011
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mah-
moud Abbas received a stern ticking-off
when he called Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu Saturday night to
condemn the savage murder Friday
night by Palestinian terrorists of the par-
ents and three small children of an Is-
raeli family while they slept at their
home at Itamar on the West Bank. The
Prime Minister knew Abbas had quietly
ordered heads of his Fatah organization
to throw its support behind the atrocity –
which was why Palestinian Prime Min-
ister Salam Fayyad was careful earlier
to denounce «violence by any quarter»
only in general terms.
In his address to the nation Saturday
night, Netanyahu accused Palestinian
leaders of hypocritically mouthing
peace slogans abroad while promoting
anti-Israel incitation and propaganda on
a daily basis in Palestinian schools and
mosques. He warned that terrorists
would not be allowed to determine the
settlement map.
DEBKAfile's sources report that the
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has been
caught out playing a double game,
which has yet to be fully clarified: Is he
supporting an operation by the rival
Islamist Hamas action so as to ride the
Arab unrest galloping across the Middle
East and boost his faltering prestige at
home? Is he trying to stir up another
Palestinian uprising (intifada)?
It would appear that Abu Mazen is op-
portunistically hoping to exploit the Pal-
estinian street's sympathy for the Arab
uprisings and divert its anger over the
corruption deeply entrenched in his re-
gime by letting Fatah terrorists off the
leash for a fresh wave of attacks on Is-
rael that could fit the slogan of the Third
Palestinian Uprising. Hamas adherents
might even rally behind his leadership.
Israeli security chiefs fear that even if
Abbas does not mean to let the violence
go to those lengths, Fatah activists may
take his sympathy for the Itamar outrage
as the green light for more attacks. In
the last two weeks, Palestinian organiza-
tions and left-wing elements in Israel
and aboard have been pushing for a Pal-
estinian Day of Rage on Tuesday,
March 15 and for two days on March
20-21 the following week, which coin-
cide with the Jewish festival of Purim.
Israel's army, intelligence and police
have been placed on the highest level of
preparedness for terrorist attacks, focus-
ing on the West Bank, Jerusalem and
mixed Jewish-Arab towns until after
Purim. Security measures have also
been clamped down on West Bank traf-
fic in a major operation to net the kill-
ers. Itamar has been declared a closed
military zone. Saturday night saw angry
Jewish settlers blocking and stoning
Palestinian vehicles. ■
IDF hunting for
perpetrators of brutal
Itamar killings
JP by Yaakov Katz, 13/03/2011
Parents, 3 children stabbed to death in
their sleep; large forces deployed near
Nablus to prevent settler-Palestinian
clashes.
A mother, father and three of their chil-
dren were stabbed to death late Friday
night by at least one suspected terrorist
who infiltrated the Itamar settlement
southeast of Nablus.
The killings occurred shortly after 10
p.m., when one or two attackers jumped
the fence that surrounds Itamar and
broke into the home of Ruth and Udi
Fogel, aged 35 and 36, respectively. The
attackers went room to room, stabbing
the parents, a three-month-old girl, Ha-
das, and two boys, Elad, three, and
Yoav, 11.
Two other children – aged two and eight
– were in a side room but were not at-
tacked.
The family's oldest child, 12- year-old
Tamar, was out of the house at the time.
The IDF immediately launched searches
in nearby Arab villages as Palestinians
reported that a faction of Fatah's al-Aksa
Martyrs Brigade had claimed responsi-
bility.
Several dozen suspects were arrested in
Awarta, Sanur and Zabada as soldiers
conducted searches with the aid of un-
manned aerial vehicles that provided
surveillance from above.
As the attackers used knives rather than
rifles or pistols, and because of other
characteristics of the killings, the IDF
believes it was not carried out by an or-
ganized terrorist infrastructure but more
likely was the work of one or two peo-
ple who could, though, be affiliated with
one of the larger Palestinian terrorist
groups.
The army urged the settler community
to demonstrate restraint in the coming
days.
The IDF and the Israel Police deployed
large forces in the area to prevent
clashes between settlers and Palestini-
ans.
The suspected terrorists infiltrated the
settlement close to 9:30 p.m. but did not
carry out the attack until around 10:15.
«The children were literally slaugh-
tered,» an IDF officer said, describing
the scene, including the children's toys
spilled out on the floor and covered in
blood. «This is one of the most brutal
attacks we have ever seen.»
The IDF was in contact with Palestinian
Authority security forces, but senior of-
ficers said the army would not rely on
the PA to catch the perpetrators.
«This attack is one of the worst attacks
we have known in recent years and we
will hunt down the terrorists until they
are caught,» the officer said, noting that
there had not been an infiltration into
Itamar in almost eight years.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak convened
top military and security chiefs on Sat-
urday and urged them to take all neces-
sary action to apprehend the killers.
«This is a horrible attack that makes my
blood boil, but I have no doubt that the
perpetrators will be captured,» Barak
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said during a meeting with IDF Chief of
General Staff Lt.- Gen. Benny Gantz
and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency)
chief Yuval Diskin. «We need to do
everything so security and quiet can re-
turn to the area.»
OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi
Mizrahi expressed condolences follow-
ing the attack.
«An entire family was killed by despi-
cable and cowardly murderers who
murdered children and parents for no
reason,» he said.
Mizrahi hinted that the IDF had a lead
on the identity of the terrorists: «We are
in the midst of pursuing the terrorists
and I believe we will catch them very
soon,» he said.
The details of the investigation were
covered by a gag order.
The Fogel family lived in Gush Katif.
After the 2005 disengagement from the
Gaza Strip, it moved to Ariel and then to
Itamar. ■
IDF hunting for
perpetrators of brutal
Itamar killings
JP by Yaakov Katz 13/03/2011
Parents, 3 children stabbed to death in
their sleep; large forces deployed near
Nablus to prevent settler-Palestinian
clashes.
A mother, father and three of their chil-
dren were stabbed to death late Friday
night by at least one suspected terrorist
who infiltrated the Itamar settlement
southeast of Nablus.
The killings occurred shortly after 10
p.m., when one or two attackers jumped
the fence that surrounds Itamar and
broke into the home of Ruth and Udi
Fogel, aged 35 and 36, respectively. The
attackers went room to room, stabbing
the parents, a three-month-old girl, Ha-
das, and two boys, Elad, three, and
Yoav, 11.
Two other children – aged two and eight
– were in a side room but were not at-
tacked.
The family's oldest child, 12- year-old
Tamar, was out of the house at the time.
The IDF immediately launched searches
in nearby Arab villages as Palestinians
reported that a faction of Fatah's al-Aksa
Martyrs Brigade had claimed responsi-
bility.
Several dozen suspects were arrested in
Awarta, Sanur and Zabada as soldiers
conducted searches with the aid of un-
manned aerial vehicles that provided
surveillance from above.
As the attackers used knives rather than
rifles or pistols, and because of other
characteristics of the killings, the IDF
believes it was not carried out by an or-
ganized terrorist infrastructure but more
likely was the work of one or two peo-
ple who could, though, be affiliated with
one of the larger Palestinian terrorist
groups.
The army urged the settler community
to demonstrate restraint in the coming
days.
The IDF and the Israel Police deployed
large forces in the area to prevent
clashes between settlers and Palestini-
ans.
The suspected terrorists infiltrated the
settlement close to 9:30 p.m. but did not
carry out the attack until around 10:15.
«The children were literally slaugh-
tered,» an IDF officer said, describing
the scene, including the children's toys
spilled out on the floor and covered in
blood. «This is one of the most brutal
attacks we have ever seen.»
The IDF was in contact with Palestinian
Authority security forces, but senior of-
ficers said the army would not rely on
the PA to catch the perpetrators.
«This attack is one of the worst attacks
we have known in recent years and we
will hunt down the terrorists until they
are caught,» the officer said, noting that
there had not been an infiltration into
Itamar in almost eight years.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak convened
top military and security chiefs on Sat-
urday and urged them to take all neces-
sary action to apprehend the killers.
«This is a horrible attack that makes my
blood boil, but I have no doubt that the
perpetrators will be captured,» Barak
said during a meeting with IDF Chief of
General Staff Lt.- Gen. Benny Gantz
and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency)
chief Yuval Diskin. «We need to do
everything so security and quiet can re-
turn to the area.»
OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi
Mizrahi expressed condolences follow-
ing the attack.
«An entire family was killed by despi-
cable and cowardly murderers who
murdered children and parents for no
reason,» he said.
Mizrahi hinted that the IDF had a lead
on the identity of the terrorists: «We are
in the midst of pursuing the terrorists
and I believe we will catch them very
soon,» he said.
The details of the investigation were
covered by a gag order.
The Fogel family lived in Gush Katif.
After the 2005 disengagement from the
Gaza Strip, it moved to Ariel and then to
Itamar. ■
Ariel mayor:
Delegitimization of
settlements caused
attack
JPOST 12/03/2011
Ron Nachman says left-wing journalists,
Palestinians incited Itamar terrorists ;
Settlers reportedly attack houses in
nearby villages.
Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman on Saturday
blamed Palestinian and left-wing dele-
gitimization of West Bank settlements
for the Friday night Itamar terror attack
in which five Israelis were killed.
Nachman's comments came in an inter-
view with Israel Radio.
Nachman stated that Palestinian Author-
ity Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad call-
ing for a boycott of goods manufactured
in the settlements as well as Israeli
newspapers «separating settlers from
Israelis living on the other side of the
Green Line» were responsible for incit-
ing the terrorists to carry out the attack
in Itamar.
National Infrastructures Minister Uzi
Landau on Saturday said that Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
was responsible for Friday's terror at-
tack in Itamar because he allowed in-
citement to violence against Israel in the
PA's educational system.
«Behind the murderer of the family in
Itamar stands Abu Mazen [Abbas], the
‹peace partner,› who founded the offi-
cial educational system in the Palestin-
ian Authority, which teaches hatred of
Jews and presents child killers as role
models,» Landau said in a statement.
Landau called on Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu to stop presenting
Abbas as a peace partner and to demand
from the PA and the US that peaceful
education in the Palestinian Authority
be a precondition to any peace process.
Netanyahu also demanded that the Pal-
estinian Authority «halt the incitement
in the mosques and via the Palestinian
Authority-controlled media.»
A statement from Netanyahu added that
«a society that permits such wild in-
citement is one that eventually brings
about the murder of children.»
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Palestinian sources reported on Saturday
that a number of West Bank settlers at-
tacked houses in the villages of Burin
and Hawara, near Itamar.
According to the report, Palestinian eye
witnesses said that between 30 and 40
settlers entered the houses in the Pales-
tinian villages and then proceeded to
hurl stones and glass bottles at them. ■
'Blue-and-white'
operation to
apprehend terrorists
JP by Yaakov Katz 13/03/2011
Analysis: Due to the brutality by terror-
ists in the murder of children, the IDF
will not rely on anyone else as it hunts
for those responsible.
In recent years, since the deployment of
American-trained Palestinian security
forces in the West Bank, the IDF has in
many cases relied on the PA to arrest
terror suspects, and sometimes even
those known to have been behind at-
tacks against Israel.
But the operation to apprehend the ter-
rorists who murdered five members of
the Fogel family as they slept in their
beds in their home in Itamar on Friday
night will be completely «blue-and-
white.»
This time, due to the type of attack and
the brutality it took to murder sleeping
children, the IDF will not be relying on
anyone else as it hunts for those respon-
sible.
The attack in Itamar catches Israel three
months into 2011, and after the quietest
«security year» the country has experi-
enced in a decade. In 2010, nine Israelis
were killed in Palestinian terrorist at-
tacks, compared to 15 in 2009 and close
to 40 in the year before.
It also came after a year during which
IDF commanders met close to 700 times
with their Palestinian counterparts, co-
ordinating security operations and the
PA forces' deployment throughout the
West Bank.
Just last month, the Central Command
decided to remove the Hawara check-
point at the southern entrance to Nablus,
just before the turnoff to Itamar, allow-
ing free movement from northern
Samaria to other parts of the West Bank.
On Saturday, the checkpoint was re-
stored, at least for the time being.
The IDF does not plan on changing its
current work relationship with the PA
security establishment, and after the
perpetrators behind the attack are
caught, business will likely go back to
usual as the sides continue to meet, co-
ordinate operations and facilitate the US
and European support of the PA.
The lull in terrorism in 2010 was a di-
rect result of this coordination and the
PA crackdown on Hamas and other ter-
rorist groups in the West Bank – not a
result of any newfound love for Zion-
ism, but out of an understanding that if
it is not done, Hamas will take over
Ramallah as it took over Gaza in 2007.
The joint work with the PA and the
IDF's ability to cut back on the number
of operations inside Palestinian cities
has allowed the military to also cut
back, over the past year, the number of
soldiers it maintains in the West Bank
on a regular basis, reaching some of the
lowest numbers since before the second
intifada erupted in 2000.
The IDF did not have any specific intel-
ligence regarding Friday's attack. It had,
however, placed forces and settlement
security teams on high alert in recent
weeks amid fears of infiltrations, due to
the increased tension and clashes be-
tween settlers and Palestinians.
The assessment within the IDF is that
the perpetrators acted alone and did not
belong to an established terrorist organi-
zation like Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
They might be affiliated with one group
or another, but their motive could be the
growing tension with settlers, or the
wave of delegitimization of Israel, and
particularly the settlements, sweeping
throughout the Palestinian cities and
towns.
Despite the revolutions in Tunisia and
Egypt and the violent rebellion in Libya,
the West Bank has remained quiet. On
Tuesday, this is expected to change,
with Palestinians planning several mas-
sive demonstrations to protest against
Israel and in support of Fatah-Hamas
unity. The IDF will need to be careful
about how it responds both to Friday's
attack and to the upcoming demonstra-
tions; to prevent further escalation, it
will also need to work to try and rein in
the usual «price tag» settler retaliatory
attacks.
Politically speaking, all eyes will be on
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
While he challenged the world on Sat-
urday to unite in denouncing the attack
in Itamar in strong and unequivocal
terms, Netanyahu is said to be in the
midst of writing a new groundbreaking
diplomatic speech in which, some pre-
dict, he will call for the establishment of
a Palestinian state within temporary
borders.
The attack in Itamar could serve as
Netanyahu's excuse for getting out of
something he never wanted to do in the
first place. ■
Barak: IDF's iron fist
will land on Fogel
murderers
By JPOST 13/03/2011
Funerals start in Givat Shaul;
Defense minister speaks at
ceremony for fallen soldiers;
Netanyahu blames PA incitement
for terror attack.
The terrorist attack that left five family
members dead in the settlement of
Itamar over the weekend is a «painful
reminder of the unbearable bloody price
that we must pay in the struggle for sov-
ereignty and rebirth of Israel in its
land,» Defense Minister Ehud Barak
told mourners on Sunday.
Speaking at a ceremony at Mt. Herzl for
fallen soldiers whose resting places are
unknown, the defense minister said he is
confident that the «iron fist of the IDF
and the Shin Bet will quickly land on
the murderers.» They will be caught and
brought to justice and made to pay, he
added.
Ehud Barak Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem
Barak said that «Israel's security, its fu-
ture and its borders will be designed and
shaped by our decisions and not by
murderous terrorism.» He continued,
«Our hearts are with the orphans with-
out a mother or father, and with all of
the families.»
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
told the cabinet on Sunday that when he
spoke with surviving members of the
Fogel family, who were murdered over-
night Friday in the settlement of Itamar,
that he heard the children crying.
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«Last night I spoke with Chaim Fogel
and with Rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai, the
fathers of Udi and Ruthie Fogel, respec-
tively, may their memories be blessed. I
came to console them and I heard the
crying of their young grandchildren who
survived.»
Netanyahu added, «Mr. Prime Minister,
may God give you the strength, under-
standing, wisdom and bravery to defend
the Israeli people, all of Israel's citizens,
at this time.»
The prime minister also criticized the
Palestinian Authority for what he called
its incitement to terrorism. «Regrettably,
we see the PA awarding scholarships to
the families of murderers. We see that
they name squares after terrorists who
murdered dozens of Israelis. These do
not jibe with education for peace.» ■
Yishai: 'We need 1,000
units for every person
murdered'
By JPOST 13/03/2011
Gov't approves new apartments
in W. Bank blocs in wake of
terrorist attack
Abbas says decision is «wrong
and unacceptable.»
Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Sunday
responded to the government's approval
of hundreds of new housing units in the
settlements following the terrorist attack
in Itamar Saturday, saying: «I would not
stop with 400 units, we need at least
1,000 new housing units for each person
murdered.»
«After this terrible and shocking mur-
der, nothing will comfort the families,»
Yishai said. «The [Palestinian] Author-
ity is raising a generation of murderers.»
The Palestinian Authority on Sunday
also responded to the approval of set-
tlement building, calling it «wrong and
unacceptable.»
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, Palestinian Au-
thority President Mahmoud Abbas'
spokesman, said that «the atmosphere in
which such a decision is made does not
help, but only creates problems.» He
added, «Peace requires courageous deci-
sions.»
Chairman of the Council of Jewish
Communities in Judea and Samaria
Danny Dayan on Sunday criticized the
government's decision to approve the
building permits, saying that it shouldn't
have happened only after the Fogel fam-
ily was murdered.
Photo by: Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
«The government's decision is a small
move in the right direction, given that
construction in Yehuda and Shomron
stands at a negative index of thousands
of housing units,» he said.
Dayan added, «The government should
approve additional construction and of
course, should finally approve the mas-
ter plan for Itamar and the building of a
new neighborhood in the name of those
murdered.»
«This unfortunately is only the first time
since the formation of the second
Netanyahu government that new hous-
ing has been approved and it's a pity that
parents and their children needed to be
murdered for it to do so.»
On Saturday, the ministerial team for
settlements approved hundreds of new
apartments in the settlements of Ma'ale
Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Sefer and in
Gush Etzion in a special meeting.
The move comes in the wake of a terror-
ist attack on Friday in which five mem-
bers of one family were stabbed to death
in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
Among the participants in the specially
called meeting were Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu, Vice Premier
Moshe Ya'alon, Defense Minister Ehud
Barak and Homeland Security Minister
Matan Vilna'i. Sources in the Prime
Minister's Office told Israel Radio that
the plan deals with measured building
inside existing settlement blocs. ■
U.S. 'partner' behind
massacre of Jewish
family
Parents, children murdered; 3-
year-old stabbed in heart,
infant's throat cut
By Aaron Klein, WND, March 13,
2011
JERUSALEM – Cells from the Palestin-
ian Authority's so-called military wing
were involved with planning and carry-
ing out yesterday's bloody massacre in
which five family members were bru-
tally stabbed to death inside their home
in the Jewish village of Itamar, reports
sources from within those terror cells
speaking to WND.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the
«military wing» of PA President Mah-
moud Abbas' Fatah party, at first re-
leased a pamphlet taking responsibility
for the attack and then quickly retracted
the statement.
Top sources in the Brigades leadership
in the northern West Bank city of
Nablus, however, confirmed to WND
that members of the Fatah group
planned and helped to carry out the at-
tack.
The sources claimed the attack was not
sanctioned by the Fatah leadership but
was planned by Brigades members who
were acting as individuals.
Also, the sources said the actual perpe-
trators of the attack were sleeper cells
from Hamas, while the Brigades leaders
planned the attack, provided logistical
support and aided in the Hamas agents'
escape.
If accurate, this would evidence unusual
cooperation between Hamas and Fatah
rivals.
The George W. Bush administration had
labeled Fatah as a «negotiating partner»
for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict.
Just two weeks ago, WND reported ex-
clusively that members of Abbas' Bri-
gades, now classified by the U.S. State
Department as a terrorist organization,
have been brandishing weapons publicly
in recent days despite a disarmament
agreement with Israel.
According to informed Israeli security
sources, messages were passed to the
PA by the Israel Defense Forces and
Israel's Shabak security services, that
the armed Brigades members must lay
down their weapons or face arrest.
Israeli security officials told WND two
weeks ago they fear the newfound mili-
tancy of the Brigades – evidenced by
their publicly brandishing weapons –
may be a strategic decision on the part
of the PA to orient itself in a more ex-
tremist direction following Barack
Obama's championing of unrest that
toppled pro-Western regimes in Egypt
and Tunisia.
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Murdered members of Udi Fogel family
Yesterday's massacre, in the northern
West Bank village of Itamar, saw Pales-
tinian assailants stab to death the Fogel
family – father Udi, 37, mother Ruth,
36, 10-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad,
and 3-month-old Hadas – inside their
home. Two other children in the house
at the time were not hurt in the attack,
apparently because the terrorists did not
notice them.
Israel National News reported the initial
findings of the investigation show the
terrorists stabbed the Fogel family's
sleeping 3-year-old in the heart and
slashed the throat of his 3-month-old
sister.
The assailants apparently entered the
Fogel's home through a living room
window. They did not notice a 6-year-
old boy sleeping on the couch and con-
tinued on to the bedroom, where they
slashed the throats of the father and
newborn baby sleeping there.
The mother, Ruth, came out of the bath-
room and was stabbed in the doorway.
The evidence shows she tried to fight
the terrorists.
The Palestinians found 10-year old
Yoav reading in bed when they stabbed
him to death.
They apparently also did not notice a 2-
year old asleep in his bed, but murdered
the 3-year old with two stabs to his
heart.
After that, the terrorists reportedly
locked the door of the house and exited
through the window.
The Fogel's 12-year-old daughter re-
turned home only to find the horrific
scene. She reportedly ran out of the
house screaming.
According to reports, she was not able
to initially enter the locked house so she
woke up a neighbor, who assisted her in
waking up one of the sleeping children
inside the Fogel home who had had not
been noticed by the terrorists.
Meanwhile, IDF Brigadier General
Yossi Kuperwasser, director general of
the Strategic Affairs Ministry, said to-
day that hours after the Itamar massacre,
Abbas met with a member of a song
group that contributes to an «atmos-
phere of terror.»
Palestinian Media Watch today reported
on the rampant incitement to violence
evidenced in the PA media in the days
and weeks before yesterday's attack.
Just one day before the assault, Sabri
Saidam, advisor to and under-secretary
of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, de-
livered a speech in which he empha-
sized that weapons must be turned to-
wards the «main enemy [Israel]» and
that internal differences of opinion must
be set aside.
In the week leading up to the terrorist
attack, the PA announced plans for a
football tournament named after the first
Palestinian suicide bomber, Wafa Idris,
who killed one and reportedly injured
more than 150 when she blew herself up
in Jerusalem in January 2002.
Earlier, Abbas' representative, Azzam
Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central
Committee, was the guest of honor at a
Palestinian scout ceremony in which
buildings representing Jewish residents
of the West Bank were blown up.
In December, Abbas granted the rela-
tives of a Palestinian terrorist $2,000 as
part of a regular PA campaign that sup-
ports so-called «shahids» or «martyrs»
who die while attacking Jews. ■
Radio confrontation:
'How can your group
slit infant's throat?'
Palestinian spokesman blasted
over Jewish family's killing
WorldNetDaily, March 13, 2011
«Why should America continue to fund
the Palestinian Authority when its own
apparatus is responsible for incitement
to murder and violence and terrorism
and has carried out repeated terrorist
attacks against civilians?»
This is just one of multiple questions
fired away by WND senior reporter
Aaron Klein on his WABC Radio show
during an interview with PA spokesper-
son Dmitri Diliani.
The confrontational interview, audio
from which is linked below, took place
in the wake of the weekend's bloody
massacre in which Palestinian assailants
brutally stabbed to death five members
of the Udi Fogel family, including a 3-
month-old infant, inside their home in
the Jewish village of Itamar.

11-year-old son
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the
«military wing» of PA President Mah-
moud Abbas' Fatah party, at first re-
leased a pamphlet taking responsibility
for the attack and then quickly retracted
the statement.
Top sources in the Brigades leadership
in the northern West Bank city of
Nablus, however, confirmed to WND
that members of the Fatah group
planned and helped to carry out the at-
tack.
After Diliani repeatedly claimed to
Klein that his Fatah organization con-
demns violence and supports peace,
Klein ended the interview, but not be-
fore lashing into the Palestinian spokes-
person.
«Yeah, you condemn violence,» Klein
exclaimed sarcastically. «I can't hear
any more of this.»
Continued Klein: «You condemn vio-
lence as a Palestinian, probably from
your party, just slit the throat of a Jew-
ish infant and as your president, Mah-
moud Abbas, just dedicated a square to
an infamous Palestinian murderer.»
Klein was referring to reports that
Abbas' Fatah faction yesterday – just
one day after the terrorist massacre in
Itamar – named a town square after the
jihadist leader of a 1978 bus hijacking in
which 35 Israelis were killed.
Klein asked Diliani to comment on
those reports as well as the rampant in-
citement to violence evidenced in the
official PA media in the days and weeks
before the Itamar attack.
Just one day before the assault, Sabri
Saidam, advisor to and under-secretary
of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, de-
livered a speech in which he empha-
sized that weapons must be turned to-
wards the «main enemy [Israel]» and
that internal differences of opinion must
be set aside.
In the week leading up to the terrorist
attack, Palestinian Media Watch re-
ported the PA announced plans for a
football tournament named after the first
Palestinian suicide bomber, Wafa Idris,
who killed one and reportedly injured
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more than 150 when she blew herself up
in Jerusalem in January 2002.
Earlier, Abbas' representative, Azzam
Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central
Committee, was the guest of honor at a
Palestinian scout ceremony in which
buildings representing Jewish residents
of the West Bank were blown up.
In December, Abbas granted the rela-
tives of a Palestinian terrorist $2,000 as
part of a regular PA campaign that sup-
ports so-called «shahids» or «martyrs»
who die while attacking Jews. ■
Three Jewish children
by Caroline B. Glick 14 March
2011 JP
People are no longer ashamed to parade
negative feelings toward Jews.
Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when
the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her
husband Udi and their three-month-old
daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as
they lay in bed on Friday night in their
home in Itamar.
The terrorists stabbed Ruth to death as
she came out of the bathroom. With
both parents and the newborn dead, they
moved on to the other children, going
into a bedroom where Ruth and Udi's
sons Yoav (11) and Elad (four) were
sleeping. They stabbed them through
their hearts and slit their throats.
3-year-old boy
The murderers apparently missed an-
other bedroom where the Fogels' other
sons, eight-year-old Ro'i and two-year-
old Yishai were asleep because they left
them alive. The boys were found by
their big sister, 12-year-old Tamar,
when she returned home from a friend's
house two hours after her family was
massacred.
Tamar found Yishai standing over his
parents' bodies screaming for them to
wake up.
In his eulogy at the family's funeral on
Sunday, former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir
Lau told Tamar that her job from now
on is to be her surviving brothers'
mommy.
In a rare move, the Prime Minister's Of-
fice released photos of the Fogel fam-
ily's blood-drenched corpses.
They are shown as they were found by
security forces.
There was Hadas, dead on her parents'
bed, next to her dead father Udi.
There was Elad, lying on a small throw
rug wearing socks. His little hands were
clenched into fists. What was a four-
year-old to do against two grown men
with knives? He clenched his fists. So
did his big brother.
Maybe the Prime Minister's Office
thought the pictures would shock the
world. Maybe Binyamin Netanyahu
thought the massacre of three little chil-
dren would move someone to rethink
their hatred of Israel.
That was the theme of his address to the
nation Saturday night.
Netanyahu directed most of his words to
the hostile world. He spoke to the lead-
ers who rush to condemn Israel at the
UN Security Council every time we as-
sert our right to this land by permitting
Jews to build homes. He demanded that
they condemn the murder of Jewish
children with the same enthusiasm and
speed.
He shouldn't have bothered.
The government released the photos on
Saturday night. Within hours, the social
activism website My Israel posted a
short video of the photographs on You-
Tube along with the names and ages of
the victims.
Within two hours YouTube removed the
video.
What was Netanyahu thinking? Didn't
he get the memo that photos of mur-
dered Jewish children are unacceptable?
If they're published, someone might
start thinking about the nature of Pales-
tinian society.
Someone might consider the fact that in
the Palestinian Authority, anti-Jewish
propaganda is so ubiquitous and so
murderous that killing the Fogel babies
was an act of heroism. The baby killers
knew that by murdering Udi, Ruth, Ha-
das, Yoav and Elad they would enter the
pantheon of Palestinian heroes. They
can expect to have a sports stadium or
school in Ramallah or Hebron built for
them by the Palestinian Authority and
underwritten by American or European
taxpayers.
And indeed, the murder of the Fogel
children and their parents was greeted
with jubilation in Gaza.
Carnivals were held in the streets as
Hamas members handed out sweets.
Obviously YouTube managers are not
interested in being held responsible for
someone noticing that genocidal Jew
hatred defines Palestinian society – and
the Arab world as a whole. But they
really have no reason to be concerned.
Even if they had allowed the video to be
posted for more than an hour, it would-
n't have made a difference.
The enlightened peoples of Europe, and
growing numbers of Americans, have
no interest in hearing or seeing anything
that depicts Jews as good people, or
even just as regular people. It is not that
the cultured, intellectual A-listers in
Europe and America share the Palestini-
ans' genocidal hatred of the Jewish peo-
ple.
The powerful newspaper editors, televi-
sion commentators, playwrights, fashion
designers, filmmakers and professors
don't spend time thinking about how to
prepare the next slaughter. They don't
teach their children from the time they
are Hadas and Elad Fogel's ages that
they should strive to become mass mur-
derers. They would never dream of do-
ing these things. They know there is a
division of labor in contemporary anti-
Semitism.
The job of the intellectual luminaries in
Western high society today is to hate
Jews the old-fashioned way, the way
their greatgrandparents hated Jews back
in the days of the early 20th century be-
fore that villain Adolf Hitler gave Je-
whating a bad name.
Much has been made of the confluence
of anti-Semitic bile pouring out of the
chattering classes. From Mel Gibson to
Julian Assange to Charlie Sheen to John
Galliano, it seems like a day doesn't go
by without some new celebrity exposing
himself as a Jew hater.
It isn't that the beautiful people and their
followers suddenly decided that Jews
are not their cup of tea (or rail of co-
caine). It's just that we have reached the
point where people no longer feel em-
barrassed to parade negative feelings
towards Jews.
A DECADE ago, the revelation that
French ambassador to Britain Daniel
Bernard referred to Israel as «that
shi**y little country,» was shocking.
Now it is standard fare. Everyone who
is anyone will compare Israel to Nazi
Germany without even realizing this is
nothing but Holocaust denial.
The post-Holocaust dam reining in anti-
Semitism burst in 2002. As Jewish chil-
dren and parents like the Fogels were
being murdered in their beds, on the
streets, in discotheques, cafés and su-
permarkets throughout Israel, fashion-
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able anti-Semites rejoiced at the oppor-
tunity to hate Jews in public again.
The collective Jew, Israel was accused
of everything from genocide to infanti-
cide to just plain nastiness.
Israel's leaders were caricatured as Fa-
gin, Shylock, Pontius Pilate and Hitler
on the front pages of newspapers
throughout Europe. IDF soldiers were
portrayed as Nazis, and Israeli families
were dehumanized.
No longer civilians with an inherent
right to live, in universities throughout
the US and Europe, Israeli innocents
were castigated as «extremist-Zionists»
or «settlers» who basically deserved to
be killed.
Professors whose «academic» achieve-
ments involved publishing sanitized
postmodern versions of anti-Jewish Pal-
estinian propaganda were granted tenure
and rewarded with lucrative book con-
tracts.
Today, when properly modulated, Jew
hatred is a career maker. Take play-
wright Caryl Churchill's 1,300- word
anti-Semitic monologue Seven Jewish
Children.
The script accuses the entire population
of Israel of mass murders which were
never committed.
For her efforts, Churchill became an in-
ternational celebrity. The Royal Court
Theater produced her anti- Jewish agit-
prop. The Guardian featured it on its
home page. When Jewish groups de-
manded that The Guardian remove the
blood libel from its website, the paper
refused. Instead, it left the anti-Semitic
propaganda on its homepage, but in a
gesture of openmindedness, hosted a
debate about whether or not Seven Jew-
ish Children is anti-Semitic.
From London, Seven Jewish Children
went on tour in Europe and the US. In a
bid to show how tolerant of dissent they
are, Jewish communities in America
hosted showings of the play, which por-
trays Jewish parents as monsters who
train their children to become mass
murderers.
Seven Jewish Children's success was
repeated by the Turkish anti-Semitic
action film Valley of the Wolves- Pales-
tine, which premiered on January 28 –
International Holocaust Memorial Day.
The hero of that film is a Turkish James
Bond character who comes to Israel to
avenge his brothers, who were killed by
IDF forces on the Turkish-Hamas terror
ship Mavi Marmara last May.
No doubt owing to the success of Seven
Jewish Children and Valley of the
Wolves-Palestine and other such initia-
tives, anti-Semitic art and entertainment
is a growth sector in Europe.
Last month Britain struck again. Chan-
nel 4 produced a new piece of anti-
Semitic bile – a four-part prime-time
miniseries called The Promise. It pre-
sents itself as an historical drama about
Israel and the Palestinians, but its rela-
tionship with actual history begins and
ends with the wardrobes. In what has
become the meme of all European and
international left-liberal salons, the only
good Jews in the mini-series are the
ones who died in the Holocaust. From
the show's perspective, every Jew who
took up arms to liberate Israel from the
British and defend it from the Arabs is a
Nazi.
WHAT ALL this shows is that
Netanyahu was wasting his time calling
on world leaders to condemn the murder
of the Fogel family. What does a con-
demnation mean? France and Britain
condemned the massacre, along with the
US. Does that exculpate the French and
British for their embrace of anti-
Semitism? Does it make them friends of
the Jewish state? And say a British
playwright sees the YouTube censored
photographs. No self-respecting British
playwright will write a play called
Three Jewish Children telling the story
of how Palestinian parents do in fact
teach their children to become mass
murderers of Jews. And if a playwright
were to write such a play, The Royal
Court Theater wouldn't produce it. The
Guardian wouldn't post it on its website.
Liberal Jewish community centers in
America wouldn't show it, nor would
university student organizations in
Europe or America.
No, if someone wanted to use the pho-
tographs of Yoav's and Elad's mangled
corpses and clenched fists as inspiration
to write a play or feature film about the
fact that the Palestinians have no na-
tional identity outside their quest to an-
nihilate the Jewish state, he would find
no mass market.
The headlines describing the attack
make all this clear.
From the BBC to CNN the Fogels were
not described as Israelis. They were a
«settler family.» Their murderers were
«alleged terrorists.»
As far as the opinion makers of Europe
and much of America are concerned, the
Yoavs and Hadases and Elads of Israel
have no right to live if they live in «a
settlement.»
So too, they believe that Palestinians
have a right to murder Israelis who
serve in the IDF and who believe that
Jews should be able to live freely wher-
ever we want because this land belongs
to us.
Until these genteel Jew haters learn to
think otherwise, Israel should neither
seek nor care if they condemn this or
any other act of Palestinian genocide.
We shouldn't care about them at all. ■
«I Will Be Their
Mother» Says 12 Year
Old Tamar Fogel
by Uzi Baruch, 9 Adar Bet 5771,
15 March 2011, A7
The eldest daughter of the Fogel family,
12 year old Tamar, promised her rela-
tives: «I will be strong and succeed in
overcoming this. I understand the task
that stands before me, and I will be a
mother to my siblings». The orphaned
youngster's words were quoted in the
Hebrew daily Yisrael Hayom.
In their home in the town of Neve Tsuf
in Samaria, Tsila and Chaim Fogel, par-
ents of Udi, are sitting on low benches
for the traditional «shiva» week of
mourning alongside his three brothers
and sister. There is a constant stream of
comforters going in and out of the
house, VIP's and ordinary citizens from
all over Israel, whose hearts go out to
the bereft family that lost son, daughter-
in-law, and three young grandchildren
in a barbaric terrorist slaughter on Fri-
day night.
Chaim Fogel continues to retell the
story of terrible hours from 3 a.m. on,
when he received the horrific news,
drove to Itamar, met his 12 year old
granddaughter and then entered the fam-
ily's home. The authorities were forced
to ask her to tell what she saw when she
returned from her youth group activity
to find her family's bloodsoaked bodies
at 12:30 a.m. Chaim himself had the
heartbreaking task of identifying the
bodies.
«We came to take the surviving grand-
children out of the Valley of Death, he
said. I don't wish on anyone in the world
the sight I saw. It is horrendous, beyond
description, beyond comprehension».
The grandparents recalled the last time
they saw Udi, Ruti and the children, a
week and a half ago on Saturday night.
They celebrated the start of the month of
Adar Bet in Itamar, danced, sang and
laughed.
«At least they had a taste of Purim»,
said Udi's mother Tzila. «I didn't feel
any premonitions. Why should I have
thought that I will never see them again?
I am not trying to remember if there was
anything of that nature in my mind. We
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were happy together. We have photos of
the children playing and happy».
The family is against any personal re-
venge or taking the law into civilian
hands. Their slain children felt the same,
they said, unequivocally.
The Ben Yishai home of Ruti's parents
in Jerusalem, where the surviving
grandchildren are now, is also crowded
with comforters. After the mourning
week is over, the family will decide
where the children will live. Meanwhile,
they are having difficulty in explaining
to the youngest child what happened to
his parents. «What shall we tell them?»
they said. «What does a two-year-old
understand when he cries over the loss
of his parents? They tell us that children
heal quickly, mentally and physically.
We hope so». ■
11-Year-Old Yoav's
Legacy: 'Love
Everyone'
by Chana Ya'ar, 10 Adar Bet
5771, 14 March 2011 A7
First responders who rushed into the
blood-drenched bedroom of 11-year-old
Yoav Fogel last Friday night were con-
fronted with a sight that nearly stopped
them in their tracks.
A colorful little wooden plaque hung
above the slain young boy's bed, pro-
claiming his love for his people and a
prayer for peace between all.
The prayer above Yoav's bed, written
originally in Hebrew, reads as follows
(in English):
May it be Your will, L-rd G-d and G-d of
our forefathers,
That I love every one of Israel as myself,
and
To graciously perform the positive com-
mandment of loving your neighbor as
yourself.
And may it also be Your will, Lord G-d
and G-d of my forefathers,
That you cause the hearts of my friends
and neighbors to love me fervently, and
That I be accepted and desirable to every-
one, and
That I be loving and pleasant, and
That I be gracious and merciful in the eyes
of all who see me.
As water reflects face to face, so the heart
of man to man.
And all for the sake of Heaven, to do Your
will,
Amen
Along with his 4-year-old brother Elad
and his new little baby sister, 3-month-
old Hadas, Yoav and both of his parents
were stabbed to death by terrorists who
murdered them as they slept.
Miraculously, two of his brothers sur-
vived, unnoticed by the terrorists in their
rush to slaughter the family. Eight-year-
old Ro'i and 2-year-old Shai were both
sleeping at the time.
Israel news photos: courtesy of Fogel Family
Yoav's 12-year-old sister Tamar was not
home at the time, returning about an
hour after the terrorists left to find her
family slaughtered. ■
IDF, settlers save Arab
baby
Saving life after massacre: IDF
troops, paramedics save life of
Palestinian woman giving birth in
settlement where Fogel relatives
sitting Shiva.
Soldier: «It felt amazing to hold
girl in my arms, know we did
something good»
Yair Altman, 17 March 2011,
Ynetnews
IDF forces and local paramedics helped
save the life of a Palestinian woman and
her newly born infant Wednesday, at the
settlement where Fogel relatives are sit-
ting Shiva for the five Israelis brutally
murdered last week.
Just as IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz
arrived in Neve Tzuf to offer his condo-
lences, a Palestinian cab raced towards
the community's entrance. In it, soldiers
and paramedics discovered a Palestinian
woman in her 20s in advanced stages of
labor and facing a life-threatening situa-
tion: The umbilical cord was wrapped
around the young baby girl's neck, en-
dangering both her and her mother.
The quick action of settler paramedics
and IDF troops deployed in the area
saved the mother's and baby's life,
prompting great excitement and emo-
tions at the site where residents are still
mourning the brutal death of five local
family members.
Corporal Haim Levin, 19, an IDF para-
medic, was the first medical team mem-
ber at the scene and recounted the dra-
matic situation he faced.
«When I arrived, I saw a woman cov-
ered by a blanket in a yellow Palestinian
van. I moved closer and saw the baby's
head and upper body,» he told Ynet.
«The umbilical cord was around the
baby's neck; the baby was grey and did-
n't move.»
«I first removed the cord from the neck
and at the same time asked paramedics
to prepare the baby resuscitation kit. I
pinched her to see if she's responding,
and she started to cry,» he said. Para-
medics also treated the mother, who was
in good condition at that point, Levin
said.
We treat everyone
Meanwhile, ambulance driver Orly
Shlomo raced to the scene. «We joined
the military paramedic and helped him
cut off the umbilical cord… without the
medical treatment, the fetus and woman
faced genuine life danger,» she told
Ynet.
IDF Corporal Haim Levin and Palestinian baby,
Jude
«It was touching, but I couldn't help but
think that a few meters from there, peo-
ple were sitting Shiva for another baby,
who was murdered,» she said. «I was
touched to see the face of the new baby,
but I also thought about the face of the
murdered baby.»
Gadi Amitun, who heads the Magen
David Adom team at Neve Tzuf, said
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this was not the first time settlers assist
Palestinians in distress.
«They know we have a skilled medical
team here, and in any case of accident or
injury they arrive and we help them,» he
said.
The paramedic noted that on the day
of the Fogel massacre, settlers saw
fireworks and celebrations in nearby
Palestinian communities, but added
that the local medical team is commit-
ted to assisting anyone in need.
«Two years ago, we also made sure to
treat a terrorist who attempted to place a
bomb on the road and was shot by sol-
diers,» he said.
Palestinians from the nearby village of
Nabi Salah gathered around the para-
medics along with the new grandmother
and could not hide their joy.
«They thanked us and told us they
named the girl Jude,» Corporal Levin
said.
«I volunteered for Magen David Adom
since age 15 and it's the first time I wit-
nessed childbirth. It was an amazing
feeling, to hold the girl that was just
born in my arms, and to know that in
this complex place we did something
good.» ■
Mourning Father of
Fogel Massacre Victim
«Strengthens Israel»
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, 8 Adar
Bet 5771, 14 March 11, A7
In a radio interview on radio Monday,
Rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai, the mourn-
ing father of Ruth Fogel, one of the five
victims of the Itamar massacre, taught a
lesson of faith and strengthened the
People of Israel.
His inspiring remarks on Voice of Israel
government radio stunned the inter-
viewer into near silence and brought
tears to her eyes.
After Rabbi Ben-Yishai expressed deep
pain but no anger or calls for vengeance,
interviewer Estie Perez, who has de-
scribed herself as a secular Jew, asked,
«Where do you have the strength and
restraint that you can talk now and
strengthen us, without anger and with-
out calling for vengeance – that is not in
your voice? Where is the strength
from?»
Rabbi Ben-Yishai answered, «I have
worked in education many years, and as
an educator, I try to strengthen and
teach people faith. I understand that I
cannot be satisfied with words and that I
also must implement the same principles
on which I have educated others. This is
a test of my faith, and therefore I agreed
to be interviewed.»
«I believe in the country, in our strength
and in the strength of the army, and I
ask how did this strength not save our
children?»
Rabbi Ben-Yishai said Monday morning
that he asked the oldest surviving chil-
dren, 12-year-old Tamar and eight-year-
old Ro'i, if they wanted to say the Kad-
dish prayer, recited by mourners and
expressing their faith in the Creator.
«They answered, ‹Of course. They are
our parents, brothers and sisters.›» The
mourning father and grandfather told
Voice of Israel government radio,
«They understand.»
He said, «We [the grandparents] will
take upon ourselves the difficult task
and pave for them the path so that life
will be victorious.»
«Their mother and father will pray for
them from the Heavens, their grandfa-
thers and grandmothers will give them a
lot of love, and the People of Israel will
hug them and encourage them to grow
and continue in the path of their par-
ents.»
Rabbi Ben-Yishai said that the only
thing he regrets is that he did not tell his
daughter Ruth and his grandchildren
enough times, «I love you. I love you.»
He added, «If I could go back in time, I
would say so every five minutes, but
that would not be enough.»
Rabbi Ben-Yishai revealed that the po-
lice came to his home on Shabbat to in-
form him of the attack but that no one
was home because they were visiting in
the north.
«The Creator was kind to us» by his not
having to bear the bad news on the holy
Sabbath. «Our daughter called after
Shabbat, assuming we already knew.»
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
spoke with Rabbi Ben-Yishai on the
telephone Saturday night and visited
him Sunday morning. «He felt great sor-
row and said that the entire People of
Israel are part of the sorrow. We hugged
each other,» Rabbi Ben-Yishai said.
In years past, Rabbi Ben-Yishai was a
rabbi at Jerusalem's Machon Meir. ■
The two Fogel family
killers apprehended at
neighboring Awarta
village
DEBKAfile Special Report, 17
April 2011
Police have arrested Hakim Mazen
Niad Awad, 17, and Amjad Mahmoud
Fawzi, 18, in the West Bank village of
Awarta on suspicion of murdering in
their beds five members of the Fogel
family in neighboring Itamar on March
11.
They confessed they were motivated
by an ambition to kill Jews as Pales-
tinian nationalists and die as martyrs.
They expressed no remorse.
After climbing the Itamar perimeter
fence, the pair stole an M16 automatic
rifle from an empty house, broke into
the Fogel home and knifed two children
Yoav and Elad. Their parents Udi and
Ruthie Fogel woke up to find the killers
in their bedroom and put up a fight.
They too were stabbed to death.
When one of the two murderers returned
to the house to look for more weapons,
he killed three-month old Hadas, stole
another M16 and left. He said had he
known there were two more children
sleeping in the house, he would have
butchered them too. Their 12-year old
sister found the five bodies when she
returned home that night.
The two killers, Awad still at high
school and Fawzi a student, handed the
stolen rifles over to Palestinian accom-
plices in the Ramallah sector who later
helped them destroy the evidence of
their crime. Six were rounded up.
Three young Israeli Arabs from Naz-
areth were indicted before the district
court Sunday for conspiring to carry out
acts of terrorism. They established a
new group called «Pledging Death to
Zionists» and planned to make their
own pipe bomb and gun for attacking
Israeli soldiers, policemen and civilians.
■
Itamar murder
suspects 'confessed
under torture'
By Khaled Abu Toameh, 18 April
2011, JP
The families of the two Palestinian teens
arrested in connection with the grisly
killings of members of the Fogel family
in Itamar last month said on Sunday
they don't believe the version given by
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the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency)
about the role of their sons in the case.
IDF «covering up for crimes against our people,»
says mother of Awad suspect; Awarta mayor:
Killers couldn't have come from my village.
(Reuters)
The families and many fellow residents
of the village of Awarta claimed the two
– Hakim Maazan Niad Awad, 18, and
Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad, 19 – had
confessed under «torture.»
The mayor of Awarta, who also refused
to accept the Shin Bet's version, called
for an international inquiry to reveal the
identity of the «real murderers.» Some
villagers expressed fear that Awarta
would be targeted by settlers seeking
revenge.
«My son was at home on the night the
incident took place in the settlement,»
said the mother of Hakim Awad.
«He did not leave home at all that
night.»
Awad's mother said he underwent sur-
gery in his lower abdomen about five
months ago, and that was why he may
have confessed.
«I'm sure they tortured him and forced
him to sign a confession,» she said. «His
physical condition does not allow him to
withstand torture. Everyone who knows
my son is sure that he's innocent.»
The mother claimed the IDF was trying
to «cover up for its crimes against our
people and they chose these two young
men as scapegoats.»
She also pointed out that her family
lives «on the other side of the village –
far from Itamar» – a fact she said would
have made it even harder for her son to
commit the killings.
Hakim Awad's aunt said the family al-
ready had five «martyrs» – an uncle,
three cousins and a brother-in-law.
She described Hakim as the «shy type»
who rarely socialized with other teens.
«He was a high-school pupil in the
Awarta Secondary School and did not
have relationships with people older
than him,» she said.
The mayor of Awarta, Qais Awad, also
expressed doubts about the involvement
of the two teenagers in the Itamar attack
and called for an international investiga-
tion into the case.
He said Sunday's Shin Bet announce-
ment about the identity of the suspects
was aimed at «covering up for the occu-
pation's crimes against the village over
the past 35 days.»
Israel has failed and is now trying to
cover up for what its security forces did
in our village by issuing this announce-
ment, he added.
He was referring to the village having
been sealed off during this time, with
widespread detentions and searches.
The mayor expressed fear that his vil-
lage would be targeted by «angry set-
tlers» and the IDF because of the ar-
rests. He added that while he strongly
condemned the Itamar killings, he was
confident that the perpetrators could not
have come from his village.
Hussein Awad, a relative of the two
suspects, said many residents were sur-
prised to hear about the arrests.
«We find it hard to believe that two
teenagers would commit such a despi-
cable crime,» he said. «Maybe they con-
fessed under torture. We heard that the
Israeli army had arrested the sister of
one of them and that this put pressure on
him.»
The Palestinian Authority did not issue
a response to the Awarta arrests. How-
ever, a PA official in Ramallah said
Sunday's announcement «proves that no
Palestinian organization was behind the
attack on the settlement.» ■
Who are the terrorists
who murdered the
Fogel family?
By Yaakov Lappin, 17 April 2011,
JP
Itamar terrorist's uncle, an PFLP mem-
ber, transported shooter in 2002 settle-
ment attack in which wife and 3 chil-
dren were killed.
Photo by: Courtesy
The main suspects in the Fogel family
slayings are Hakim Maazan Niad Awad,
18, and Amjad Mahmed Fauzi Awad,
19.
Hakim Awad was arrested on April 5.
He is a high school student who has
been linked by security forces to the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal-
estine group in Awarta.
In October 2010, Hakim stabbed a num-
ber of youths during a personal dispute,
the IDF said. His father, Maazan, is a
PFLP member who served five years in
a Palestinian Authority prison in the late
1990s for the murder of a female cousin
and the burning of her body.
Hakim's uncle, Jibril Awad, was a PFLP
member who transported a terrorist to
Itamar in 2002. In that attack, Rahel
Shabu, three of her three sons, and resi-
dent Yosef Twitto were shot and killed.
In 2003, Jibril Awad was killed in a fire-
fight with the IDF.
Amjad Awad was arrested on April 10.
Also a student, he is from the same clan
as Hakim Awad but is not directly re-
lated. Amjad has links with the PFLP,
according to security sources, and
worked in Israel for a period of time.
Suspected accomplices are also under
arrest.
Salah Aladin Salim Awad, 31, from
Awarta, is a PFLP member and Hakim's
uncle.
He is suspected of helping the suspects
cover their tracks after the killings, tell-
ing them to burn their blood-soaked
clothes and sending firearms they stole
from Itamar to a friend in Ramallah.
Jad Avid, 31, from Ramallah, is sus-
pected of hiding the firearms after re-
ceiving them from Salah Awad. He was
arrested in his home and the firearms
were seized by the IDF.
Maazan Niad Awad, 43, from Awarta, is
Hakim's father and a PFLP member.
Mahmed Saeed Awad, 26, is a PFLP
member in Awarta to whom the sus-
pects turned with a request to procure
firearms ahead of the Itamar attacks. ■
Fogel murderers
provide account of
Itamar massacre
By Yaakov Lappin, 18 April 2011,
JP
«We would have killed the two other
children, but didn't know they were
there,» one suspect tells Shin Bet inter-
rogators.
On the night of March 11 – as members
of the Fogel family slept in their home
in Itamar – Hakim Maazan Niad Awad
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and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad set out
from the village of Awarta, 2 km. to the
south, armed with knives, face masks
and a wire cutter, security forces said on
Sunday.
The following account of the massacre
that followed is based on confessions
from the two suspects, a reenactment of
the attack by them, and a painstaking
investigation led by the Shin Bet (Israel
Security Agency).
The suspects planned the stabbings days
ahead, and made unsuccessful attempts
to obtain firearms from a member of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal-
estine representative in their village.
The lack of guns did not dissuade the
two men from carrying out their plan to
murder Jews.
The youths left Awarta on foot, and af-
ter a kilometer, decided against using
their wire cutter after seeing that the
fence was electric. Instead they climbed
over the fence, over a forest hilltop, and
reached a row of homes in Itamar.
They entered a home adjacent to the
Fogel residence, but no one was there.
They stole an M-16 rifle from the home,
as well as ammunition and body armor,
and walked down the street.
The terrorists then saw the Fogel resi-
dence, and spotted children sleeping
through the window, security forces
said.
Immediately after entering the home,
the youths set their knives on two broth-
ers sleeping in their beds, four-year-old
Elad, and 11-year-old Yoav, killing
them both.
They then entered the parents' bedroom,
where they launched a knife attack on
Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents
fought back. During the struggle, one of
the suspects used the stolen M-16 to
shoot Ruth Fogel dead. Ehud died of his
stab wounds during the fight.
The two men left the house, but then
they heard three-month-old Hadas cry-
ing.
Awoken by the attack, the baby lay in
her crib in her parents' bedroom.
«They went back into the house and
stabbed the baby to death,» a security
source said.
Two other children were in the home,
but were spared because Akim and Am-
jad did not know they were there.
Amjad later told interrogators that he
would have killed them, too, had he
known that they were in the house.
After murdering five members of the
family, the men walked back to their
village, and told Hakim's uncle, PFLP
member Salah Adin Awad, what they
had done.
Salah hid their firearms, and instructed
them to burn their clothes, which were
covered in blood.
The men then returned to their daily life.
Meanwhile, Salah sent the murder
weapons to a friend in Ramallah, named
Jad Avid, who hid them in his home.
«They received much support from fam-
ily members and friends in their envi-
ronment,» the security source said.
Six suspected accomplices are also un-
der arrest. ■
Fogel Terrorist: Like
Father, Like Son
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, 13
Nissan 5771, 17 April 11, A7
The father of one of the murderers of
the Fogel family at Itamar had served in
jail for terror, and an uncle involved in
the 2002 terror attack on same commu-
nity.
Two teenagers were arrested for the
massacre of five members of the Fogel
family. The father of high school stu-
dent murderer Hakim Mazen Awad was
active in the Popular Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine terrorist organiza-
tion and previously had been jailed in
Israel.
Awad and Amjad Awad carried out the
brutal murders at Itamar, the same
community where Hakim Awad's uncle
was involved with the 2002 terrorist at-
tack that killed five people. He was
killed the following year in a clash with
IDF forces.
After the murders of the Fogel family,
another uncle of Awad, who also was a
PLFP terrorist and had served a prison
sentence for terror, enlisted other rela-
tives to burn the attackers' bloodstained
clothes.
While the teenage terrorist butchers re-
turned to school, as if nothing out of the
ordinary had happened, the uncle took
the knives used in the massacre and
moved them to Ramallah. Israeli secu-
rity agents have identified and arrested
the man who hid the knives and have
recovered the murder weapons.
One of the suspected terrorist's mother
insisted that her son was sleeping at the
time of the murders, despite his confes-
sion.
Another resident of Awarta, where the
terrorists live, told Voice of Israel gov-
ernment radio Sunday that he does not
even believe that the terrorist attack
took place. ■
«We won't seek capital
punishment»
Yair Altman, 18 April 2011,
Ynetnews
Parents of Udi Fogel, who was mur-
dered in Itamar massacre together with
wife, three kids, feel they've come full
circle as suspects captured ahead of
Passover.
Tzila and Haim Fogel. Coming full circle Photo:
Gil Yohanan
Haim and Zila Fogel, parents of Udi
who was murdered by terrorists along
with his wife Ruth and three of their
children, have come full circle. The
Fogels have allowed a Ynet crew into
their home after Sunday's report of the
arrest of two suspects in the Itamar mas-
sacre.
«It's good they caught them before Pass-
over, we've come full circle. We want to
close this chapter as soon as possible
and start to rehabilitate the children,
which is the most important thing,»
Haim said.
He is finding it hard to come to terms
with the murderers' identities. «You see
those are people, people who committed
these heinous crimes,» he said.
«During the shiva we kept thinking –
maybe it would turn out to be something
else, a crazy person. Now it's clear – this
was an act of hate and it's seeping
through. While the Palestinian Authority
might say they condemn the crime, I
still blame them.»
The grandfather, who has lost five
members of his family in the terror at-
tack, said has no plans to launch a cam-
paign to promote capital punishment for
the terrorists.
«They didn't escape, didn't allow the
security forces to kill them. They will
go to jail, have fun there, study. But I'm
not the one who decides on punishment
and we shall not launch a capital pun-
ishment campaign. Our goal is that they
be punished in the most severe way,
them and their families.»
«People like them, even if they receive
five life sentences – will receive the
greatest honor in prison,» Haim added.
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«We are left with our mourning, left
with the grandchildren and are forced to
continue coping.»
Tzila Fogel. «We will hold Seder despite difficul-
ties» (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
Tamar Fogel and two of her younger
brothers, who were saved from the mas-
sacre, are staying with their slain
mother's parents – the Ben Yishai fam-
ily.
«We will spend Passover together like
one very big family. We embrace them,
but no one really knows what they are
going through,» Ruth's parent's said.
The publication of the names of the
murder suspects just ahead of the holi-
day did not surprise Tzila Fogel. «I had
a feeling that it will be published before
Passover – there's something ironic
about it. But the true gift is the children
that survived.
«The night of the Seder,» she noted,
«will be difficult at first, but we will
hold it nevertheless. The kids and
grandkids will be here and we bought all
of them gifts. It will be difficult, but we
will rejoice, because we are told to re-
joice on the Seder night,» Tzila noted.
«We will celebrate the Seder with
Tzila's delicious food, along with all the
people of Israel,» concluded Haim.
Advertisement
Hakim Awad and Amjad Awad con-
fessed to their involvement in the mur-
der of five member of the Fogel family
in Itamar, and said that they sought to
carry out a terror attack in order to kill
Israelis. They expressed no regret over
the murders.
The families of the two suspects refused
to believe the two committed the massa-
cre. Hakim Awad's mother, Nawef,
claimed that her son was at home the
night of the murder and never left the
house.
«Five months ago Hakim underwent a
surgery in his stomach and I'm sure he
was tortured and forced into confess-
ing.» ■
Israeli Left's Solidarity
with Itamar Killers
by Maayana Miskin, 13 Nissan
5771, 17 April 11, A7
Shortly before the IDF revealed the
identities of the two murderers of five
members of the Fogel family, activists
with the extreme Israeli left went to
visit one killer's family – and con-
demn Israel for detaining him.
Members of Women for Peace (Nashim
L'Shalom), Gush Shalom, and Adam
Lelo Gvulot traveled to the Palestinian
Authority-controlled village of Awarta,
next to Itamar, where the IDF had been
conducting intensive investigations into
the recent attack.
«The atrocity we saw in the home of
Mohammed Awad can only be de-
scribed as a pogrom, as primitive and
brutal revenge aimed at putting fear in
residents' hearts,» activist Yaakov Ma-
nur wrote of the visit one week ago.
«The father, 45-year-old Mohammed,
his son Majdi, 20, a third-year student in
university, son Amjad, 19, a second-
year student at university, and Hakem,
17, were arrested.»
Amjad, 19, was later revealed to be
one of the murderers. He and fellow
murderer Hakim Awad told investi-
gators they had received help and
support from their relatives after
murdering Udi and Ruti Fogel and
their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and
Hadas, three months old.
The leftist activists apparently did not
realize that the Awad family was in-
volved in the murders, and simply be-
lieved the family's claims that Israel was
treating them badly for no reason.
The Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) Move-
ment said Sunday that the leftist groups
had crossed a line. «The time has come
to make leftist groups that support mur-
derers illegal. Whoever supports baby
killers has no place in a democratic so-
ciety,» the group said in a statement.
«Leftists groups' encouragement for
terrorists, which joins the Palestinian
Authority incitement, and author
Amos Oz's support for murderer
Barghouti, ultimately creates human
monsters like the murderers from
Awarta.»
MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi)
called on Attorney General Yehudah
Weinstein to investigate the groups that
went to Awarta to provide support to the
terrorists' families. «By their acts, they
incited to violence,» he wrote.
He added, «Today we see the extreme
Left's true face. These are their friends,
these are the people they defend!»
MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said the
Israelis who expressed solidarity with
the Awad family had reached a moral
low. «They cannot comfort their
brothers in Itamar, but run to show
solidarity with the enemy,» she said. ■
Fogel family: Murder
heinous, hate
bottomless
Yair Altman, 17 April 2011,
Ynetnews
Family members of Itamar massacre
victims speak out following release of
murder investigation findings. 'There is
no consolation,' says Ruth's brother as
both sides seek to protect surviving
children.
Haim Fogel with Yehuda Ben Yishai Photo: Ido
Erez
After the Passover Seder and holiday,
Haim and Tzilla Fogel will spend the
holiday week with their orphaned
grandchildren Yishai, Roi and Tamar.
«Going back to our regular personal
lives and raising the surviving chil-
dren,» says Tzilla.
It now appears that their lives will be
able to regain some semblance of nor-
mality sooner rather than later with the
solving of the investigation into the
massacre of five members of the Fogel
family in Itamar and the arrest of the
killers.
Tzilla wished to thank the security
forces for capturing the murderers – two
teens from the Palestinian village of
Awarta. «I believe that their job isn't
done, they will find anyone who had
any connection with the case and not
just the loathsome killers. I can't say
we're happy, because that word isn't
suitable at this time.»
Udi's father Haim Fogel said that «there
is no doubt that the arrest of the murder-
ers touches the heart». According to
Fogel, «we knew it would touch the na-
tion, we thought it would do more but
from our perspective, we closed a circle.
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«This is a heinous murder of bottomless
hate that is simply impossible to under-
stand. Going into a family home and
murdering people is something that only
those who have it instilled in them from
babyhood can do.»
«Proud» Amjad Mahmad Awad.
«I don't regret what I did, even if it
means I'm sentenced to death,» Amjad
said ahead of the indictment hearing.
Murdered Fogel family gravesite (Photo: Noam Five members of the Fogel family were
Moskowitz) butchered in the March 11 terror attack
Meanwhile, Ruth Fogel's brother, in Itamar. Husband and wife Udi and
Yochai Ben Yishai told Ynet: «We are Ruthie Fogel and three of their children:
very proud of the State and the security Yoav (11) Elad (4) and baby Hadas
services. But on a personal level, there (four months).
is no consolation, the pain remains
sharp.»
Yishai added that «the capture of he
murderers gives us a sense of satisfac-
tion on a national level but we must get
to a point where these people are de-
terred before they take action and not
just apprehended after the murder.»
Another one of Ruth's brothers, Elichai
Ben Yishai also discussed the revela-
tions, saying that the arrest of the terror-
ists who killed his sister does not com- Hakim Awad.
fort him. «What we lost cannot be A month after the attack elite IDF forces
brought back, even if the killers were succeeded in capturing the murderers. A
caught,» he said. few soldiers arrived at Amjad's house in
«Ehud, Ruth and their children were the village of Awarta near Itamar in the
representatives of the State of Israel,» he middle of the night.
said. «They died in the name of God, for «He was sleeping and surprised by our
Israel. We expect the state to do what is arrival. He was very frightened. In spite
right to bring back the national pride of his young age he carried out these
and to prevent such incidents from hap- monstrous acts,» said Captain N, com-
pening again.» ■ mander of the Duvdevan (cherry) unit.
According to N, «since the attack we
Palestinian baby killer: were on high alert to arrest those re-
sponsible for this horrific murder. It was
«proud of what I did» clear to us that this was an important
Ahiya Raved, 5 June 2011, case and that we needed to be prepared.
Ynetnews Our preparations included many scenar-
ios… When it was all over I told my
Amjad Awad said he has no regrets soldiers that they did a great thing.» ■
over butchering family of five in
Itamar, even if it means he'll get
death sentence.
«I'm proud of what I did,» so declared
Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, on Sunday
just moments before an indictment
against him and his partner Hakim
Awad was filed before the Judea and
Samaria Sector Military Court, over the
murders of five members of the Fogel
family two and a half months ago.